Queer Central - The Annual
Event description
13.07.19 Imperial Hotel, Erskineville
QUEER CENTRAL - THE ANNUAL!
DJ Sveta is a co-founder of Kingki Kingdom - a pioneering weekly Drag King party that evolved into her own night Queer Central - a Drag King & Queen & Queer performance party. Together they ran every Wednesday for a decade at The Sly Fox Hotel, ending in 2012.
Sveta reunites some of the most iconic, memorable, genre-bending and eclectic performers from Queer Central. THE ANNUAL will also introduce KINGS, QUEENS & QUEERS of the present & future.
PERFORMERS:
Hosted by the incomparable Fancy Piece
Featuring co-founder of Kingki Kingdom, the legendary Sexy Galexy!!
Legenday Sydney Leather Pride & Dykes On Bikes Sydney King Cheryl 'Webby' Webster as Billy Idol
Sovryn Buckles returns to Queer Central
Lovable hunk Sovryn Buckles will pay homage to Keith Urban
NEW SCHOOL QUEER CENTRAL PERFORMERS:
The real Queen of the Desert, Nova Gina a to fill their considerable Doc Martens. Star of the Black Divaz documentary, Miss First Nations & You Can’t Ask That - Drag.
Exquisitely talented queer beauty Vallarie Van Gogh
Queer Central is proud to present the debut of Peta Morris Performer to our family. It’s been quite some time since performer Peta Morris, graced the stage with her powerhouse vocals on top dance hit & gay anthem 'Just The Thing' with icon Paul Mac. She is back, just having written a one-woman show, ‘Baggage Limit’. She will be bringing two of her colourful characters Wayne and Carmen to the Imperial. Watch as Carmen brings 1960’s Kings Cross alive through projections & live performance of a song she wrote, based on kings cross dancer her dad knew at The Pink Pussycat, about marriage and her mum's coming out. Wayne channels the disputable wisdom and poetry of John Laws.
Music: DJ Sveta playing the iconic music of Queer Central
Door: Iz Connell
Photos: Ann-Marie Calilhanna
Time: 9pm - 4am
*All booking fees money will be going to raise money for INDIGENOUS SCHOLARSHIPS via Humanitix
Queer Central will be hosting the club Dr Kerryn Drysdale's book launch of:
Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures: The Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Social Scene
"By the mid-1990s, momentum was building behind the urge to create a local version of the types of drag king cultures taking place in the US, UK and Canada, and Sydney was one of the first places in Australia to put on a dedicated drag king event series. But while Sydney’s local drag king scene is indebted to pioneering efforts in carving out performance spaces for women, the creation of 'Kingki Kingdom' (renamed in 2006 to 'Queer Central') became the epicentre of social lesbian culture in Newtown.”
-- Dr Kerryn Drysdale
Tix:
$15+bf EARLY BIRD - SOLD OUT
$20+bf 2nd Release - SOLD OUT
$25+bf General Admission
*All booking fees money will be going to raise money for Indigenous Scholarships via HUMANITIX
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We pay our respects to the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, on which whose Country we gather. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land. Sovereignty Never Ceded.
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